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wednesday. they went with headquarter and logistic personnel. and then in the next few weeks another team will be joining them. all told, there will be about 100 u.s. military troops around central africa. if all of these country countries give the okay, they could be operating in uganda and sudan. they are going there to support the nations and remove a man by the name of joseph coney. he's the head of the lord's resistance army. based on what they feel are the ten commandments. the problem is, the army has been accused of rape, murder, and kidnapping on a massive scale. some have said that coney has
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pressed more than 60,000 children in the service and about two million people have dn displaced by the fighting that is continuing to go on there. >> you mentioned 100 u.s. troops. can we be more specific about what type of troops? special forces? do you know? >> we don't have that level of specificity yet but some special forces are included in that mix. but you have logistics and communications, all that is needed to support those troops. in the president's letter they say that they are not going to engage the lower army directly. they are there to gain assistance but, of course, you always have to be prepared if things don't go that way. and the letter does clearly state that if attacked, these troops will be prepared to defend themselves. >> we're talking about a land
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locked country here in africa. what sort of dangers might these troops be up against? >> well, you're talking about a civil war that has been raging there for decades, very experienced fighters in that area. you know, it has some similarities to what people would call the black hawk down operation. it was launched about the same time, in october. but a very different mission. those twroops are going in there to capture the top renegades of a warlord. this seems like a broader mission to remove joseph coney and the heads of the lords resistance army. >> okay.
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chris lawrence with us with breaking news. thank you. also here today, the president talks jobs in detroit with special guests alongside. we are also hearing that the last words of the pilots just before that air france crash. and, folks, are lining up for the iphone 4s. i want to begin with reporter roulette and jessica yellin. why detroit and why is the president touring with the south korea president, mr. lee? >> because they are trying to import u.s. cars, that means that should make that deal popular at least for now. here is the president speaking earlier. >> when all was said and done, president lee and i walked away with a trade agreement that is a win-win for both countries. >> now, they are at a general motors plant that makes subcompact cars the sonic.
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that was a car originally manufactured in korea and now clearly in the usa. so a popular one for this particular visit, brooke. >> and i'm guessing this visit to this gm facility plant has a political angle as well. what might be the potential benefits for president obama? >> well, with its high unemployment rate currently, he could fight to hang on to it. in michigan, the president can highlight the auto bailout and the administration says the factory that they are visiting today would have closed down but was saved, thanks to the help of that bailout. so we're seeing the president in detroit a lot. you'll see him a lot more there in the year to come, brooke. >> jessica yellen, thank you very much. neck on reporter roulette, we're going to crash, this can't be
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true. the final words in a doomed air france flight minutes before it crashed into the sea. it's chilling. >> it is chilling and although it doesn't tell us any more really about what happened, we knew that the pilot flying it brought the nose up and was climbing when he should have been descending. he literally stalled the aircraft or made the stall worse. it gives a much more rounded picture of the confusion of the two pilots flying and the pilot who came off his rest break, climb, climb, climb, says one. no, no, no, don't climb. go back up. no, don't go back up. this gives you an idea in a very short period of time, a couple of moments. i think what we will learn from this -- it's a controversial release, by the way. it's unauthorized. it's by a french itali who has
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been criticized by the investigators and air france. >> air france is furious. >> absolutely. air france wants to express its emotion and complete disapproval. they say it's unnecessary. it doesn't help, and it should have only been released within the legal framework. >> richard quest, thank you so much. next, on reporter roulette, maggie lake on west 14th street, to be specific, in new york city, outside of the apple store. there's a little something going on there today, huh? >> there certainly is. it has become an apple tradition. the line was down the block. if i step out of the way, it's more orderly. apple employees letting in about 10 to 20 at a time. this is, of course, the first time that the iphone, the newest version offered by sprint as well as at&t and verizon.
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the best selling iphone yet and that's by the end of the weekend maybe estimates three to four million. pretty impressive for a phone that tech analysts pundits were saying it's only incrementally different. i spoke to folks online and a fellow said, what can i say? i'm an apple fanatic. >> we know steve, apple co-founder, was in the front of the line. thank you for that reporter roulette. a high school teacher under fire for a facebook rant in which she says homosexuality, and i'm quoting, breeds like cancer. but she doesn't stoch there. find out what sparked her outburst. it involves neil patrick harris. plus, hospital workers will be allowed to let women die on the floor. that's from nancy pelosi. we'll tell you what bill has passed to affect hospitals and your health insurance. also, joining me live in the studio, nate berkus.
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what your stuff says about you. and i never thought i would be bringing you here at cnn, a couple having sex while sky diving. it's on video. you will see the pictures and learn why they are in big
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trouble. welcome back. i'm brooke baldwin. riot gear, chants, handcuffs filling the streets across america today. protesters speaking out against wall street and corporate greed. dozens under arrest. including 14 people alone in new
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york. also just in to us, brand new ireport video from wall street. the guy who shot this claims police ran over his leg and then slammed his face into the street. >> move it! move it! >> what's your badge number? >> and from ireports to live images here, this is live picture there in flew york where more demonstrators are showing up to protest. mitt romney's giving his plan for jobs. and now rick perry is taking his turn. >> i'll work to open up alaska's abundant resources to oil and gas exploration, including the awwar coastal plain and oil reserve of alaska. >> in his first major polic pol
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speech. and look at this. a sharpie colors in his hair because the school said his haircut violated the school policy and instead of calling mom, they colored it in with a sha sharpie. this sl what his mom has to say. >> if the parent gives you the okay, that's fine. but to take in the initiative to say i'm going to color in his hair with a permanent marker, that was very disrespectable. >> school officials say they will not be handling violations again in this way. >> quick reflexes from a guy
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giving a speech from a man at the imf. a group of protesters obviously, not fans of the imf. and i want you to take a look at this amazing picture from washington state. look at this. this is a cloud so unusual, we thought for sure this had to have been photo shopped. the mountain you see there, that is mt. raineer. that's real enough. but the cloud, let's get another view here. another view. can this be real? here we go. we checked with our own weather expert, he says thit is the rea deal. there's nothing particular about these. they are just really pretty and amazing to look at. candy shaped like marijuana leaves is causing a bit of a stir. take a look. pot head ring pots and lollipops. a company is selling them in 1,000 stores across the country.
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it encourages kids to use the real thing. >> i wouldn't want my son -- i mean, he's 3 but i wouldn't want him growing up thinking that pot is an okay thing to have an their candy. >> the treats are big sellers and say they don't get too many complaints. coming up next, a special treat. he is one of oprah's favorite designers. nate berkus joining me in the studio. we're going to chat about everything from what you think of our digs here. >> very cool. >> hi, nice to meet you. >> we'll talk. nate berkus. we can't turn away the man. next, stay tuned.
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so i just said to one of my team members the other day, it's the small things in life. and nate berkus, that sits well with you, right? >> yes. i thought i was a small thing. >> no, small things are important. he is here for the o you event put on by oprah winfrey. all here to motivate you to become their best receives, as she often says. so, first, let's do a little back story on you. you can sit tight. he gained global recognition in 2002 after becoming one of oprah's favorite designers and recently celebrated his own show's one-year anniversary. so congrats. >> thank you. >> wonderful having you here, kicks and all. can we get a shot of the
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green -- >> yeah. >> very nice. >> thank you. >> so "o you" what is that? >> there will probably be 5,000 people, conservatively, and it's people's christmas vacation. people save up all year to come to "o you" and we're there all day, also interactive with peter walsh, the expert, and we have a good time. it's a chance to meet everyone who is reading the magazine. it's a chance to interact with them in person and spend the day together. it's really fun. >> i want to talk about the panel of the seminar, you're specifically leading it tomorrow. for example, because this is semiembarrassing for me, one of
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our associate producers took pictures of my desk. and what your stuff says about you. i do have a desk and an office but -- as you can see, i have lovely flowers, a bunch of stuff underneath, i've got -- >> did you buy those flowers for yourself or did someone send them to you? >> someone sent them as a thank you. those are the flowers. i love music and just interviewed the indigo girls. >> any framed photos? >> no. no -- >> brooke -- okay, my thing is, and i've said this for years, we all want to live better. we're looking at your desk but this applies to everyone at home. it doesn't matter how much money you have or don't have, what you aspire to achieve, what you don't, our surroundings make us feel better about ourselves. so i've always believed that our stuff should tell the story of
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who we are or who we aspire to be. and i wouldn't send you like a framed picture of myself to put on your desk, but a t-shirt frame as a thank you. i know you love music and -- >> i have my astronaut suit on my desk. >> right. but you should have some personal things at work, too. >> okay. note to self. in terms of a seminar tomorrow, are you taking that to another level? what will you be talking about? >> well, a lot of people want to have their things and homes tell the story of who they are but they don't know where to start. it really comes down to what we put on our bookshelves, what our eyes see the minute we come home from work or car pooling or whatever we are doing every day. so i always believe what your eye falls on and lands on when you walk into your home, is
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really important. and i'm going to teach people step by step how to do that tomorrow. >> very cool. so looking around our studio, what does this say about cnn? >> it says you're very busy, cameras, monitors, it says there's a lot happening here, which i would hope because it's cnn. >> breaking news all the time. we're on it: you watch. >> i follow and watch and twitter. thank you so much pleasure to meet you. look forward to another picture frame. who knows what i'll put in that picture frame, nate berkus, thank you. coming up, this. >> they saul 10 to 12 lesions and was told, you're on your way out. >> this reality tv chef has no stomach. he's perfectly healthy, finds out he has cancer and dr. sanjay
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gupta talks about his symptoms and the surreal that he's recovering. and nancy pelosi says that women will die on the floor and doctors will not have to help them. it will affect hospitals and health insurance. i'll speak live to the congressman sponsoring this bill. don't miss the interview. be right back. so what are you doing at a gas station? well it still takes gas to go farther. but you're not getting gas. true. not this time. uh, don't have to gas up very often. so you have to go to the bathroom? no. yes you do. thought these were electric? yes, it's a uh, a chevy volt. so what are you doing at a gas station?
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snoof. a new jersey high school teacher finds herself in a firestorm after posting anti-gay comments on her facebook page. sunny hostin is on the case. sunny, let me set this up. this happened at a school in uniontown, new jersey. recognizing october as lesbian and gay history months. knox posted a picture of this on her facebook page. it's since been taken down but she allegedly wrote that homosexuality is a perverted spirit that has existed from the beginning of creation and she added that it is a "sin that breeds like cancer." sunny, i want you to hear what a gay activist in new jersey had
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to say, and then we'll talk. >> this teacher is free to say whatever she wants. it's america. but when you post it on facebook, there for all your students to see, you're bringing such hatred into the educational process. >> school administrators told our affiliate that knox was escorted out of the school pending an investigation. do the comments on facebook merit her to be fired, the grounds? >> many people would say yes but bottom line if she was just an employee at will, perhaps she could be terminated. as an unionized teacher, i would imagine that perhaps there's going to be the argument that this was free speech, that this was protected speech. she was talking about a concerted activity because she was talking about something that was going on in her school. i will say this, though.
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it's so despicable because teachers are supposed to be so tolerant and teach tolerance and to have a teacher teaching this kind of discrimination and hatred, so will she be fired, we don't know. but certainly there needs to be a reprimand at the very least for this teacher. >> we know that this teach's comments came to light after a former uniontown council member found this. >> teachers are at the forefront of that. i would question whether they would report bullying against a gay or lesbian student. >> does he have a point? >> i think that's a significant point because new jersey has recently passed what i think is the most robust anti-bullying
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laws that we have. governor christie is a supporter of it and also a former prosecutor, as i am. but the teachers and other administrators are the safeguards put in place as part of that process in that law and i would agree that if you have a teacher showing touch intolerance and she's supposed to be on the front line of preventing this bullying, a lot of bullying, i've learned, when you have someone like this and that's very, very troubling. >> a side note, we've been talking with cnn as part of our coverage about anti-bullying. you're part of anderson cooper's anti-bullying special. tell us what role and i know that we can see, re-airing saturday night at 8:00? >> that's right. i have to say that i was so honored to have been asked to be
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part of it. my part was as a legal analyst and just examining some of the lawsuits that have come out and i was really thrilled to be there with kelly rippa and dr. phil mcgraw and other folks because bullying has become such an epidemic. there's no real bullying federal law. shame on the legislators for not doing more in that regard. i think new jersey has done wonderful work since the death of tyler clemente but there really needs to be federal legislation here and new jersey's law can be the model for that. >> well, i look forward to seeing that. saturd saturday, 8:00 p.m. eastern. in this week's human factor, a story about a chef with a twist. a man without a stomach helping
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others realize food can be medicine. here is dr. sanjay gupta. >> reporter: hans is a chef without a stomach or much of an esophagus. >> i've had 11 surgeries in the last eight years. >> reporter: diagnosed with gastric cancer just weeks after appearing in 2005 season of the food network star. his treatment was painful. he had half of his stomach and esophagus removed and then more operations, chemo, radiation, but event lie he was cancer-free. that's when the headaches began. >> they saw ten to 12 lesions and was told, this is it. you're on your way out. >> it wasn't cancer but a serious brain infection. >> i ended up springing a leak where the esophagus and stomach were connected and that almost
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killed me. >> antibiotics got rid of the infection but a year later, a second worse than the first. both infections were so serious that doctors didn't want him to risk getting yet another one. so in march of this year, the rest of his stomach was removed. even though his stomach is gone, he eats six healthy small meals a day, which go directly into his intestines. >> the expression, you are what you eat. it's cliche as can be and it's because it's true and for me that really is amplified. >> a wrote a cookbook after his second operation and for the last five years he's been teaching fellow survivors how to incorporate cancer-fighting foods into their diets. >> it's power and it's energy and it's energy that our bodies can readily asimulate, even for a guy without a stomach. >> the five years have been difficult but being open about it and surrounding himself with family and friends has helped him overcome every challenge so
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far. >> somehow you just have to find a little more strength to keep going, keep going, and keep going and here we are, i just had my sixth year checkup and we are six years cancer-free. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. >> hans has had toll learn how to reeat twice. he is mentoring other gastric cancer survivors across the country. more news right after this quick break. our 4 new rich & hearty soups really have people talking... [ guy ] ring, ring. progresso... i love your new loaded potato with bacon. that's what we like to hear. ring, ring. progresso... ...switch our phone service? ...no, i think we're pretty happy with our phones. [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup.
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we want to make sure you know about this. this is a story out of washington and it concerns abortion. the house adopted restrictions, republicans for and democrats voting against. it would bar the tax subsidies granted under the health reform law to enroll in medical plans that cover abortion and grant new latitude to federally-funded abortions and abortion-related services. i have our senior analyst jeff toobin standing about.
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we have the bill sponsor, representative from pennsylvania. pennsylvania pi pennsylvania congressman pitts, how does it relate to hospitals? >> it would not fakt the way that hospitals or doctors treat patients. the same conscious protection that has been the law that they operate under and the law called impala would still be the same. all we do is provide the conscious protection for a health care worker, that they can't be compelled to perform an abortion. the conscience law has not resulted in any of the outrageous scenarios that were quoted on the floor. i had several doctors who have practiced as ob/gyns who said
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that that was an outrageous interpretation. they've never experienced that the law requires a doctor must treat a woman, a pregnant woman and her unborn child if they -- if they come into an emergency situation. >> well, let me bring one other voice into this. we heard this during yesterday's debate. i want to play spome sound. jackie she herself went back a problem in the early '90s. >> i was pregnant, i was miscarrying, i was bleeding. if i had to go from one hospital to the next trying to find one emergency room that would take me in, who knows if i would even be here today. >> so congresswoman speier called your bill mosogonistic. sir, what is your response to that? >> she said if hi to go, who
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knows. this is all hypothetical, in my opinion. absolutely wrong. the doctors clearly refuted this. talk to the doctors who have been practicing for 30, 35 years, delivered thousands of babies, have treated these kinds of situations many times. they will tell you, this is an outrageous interpretation. they are merely -- what we voted on was merely the same conscious protections that they have enjoyed for the last decade or however many years that this law has been on the books. this doesn't change a thing. this is the same law that was passed in the house overwhelmingly overwhelmingly bipartisanly, when we considered the pelosi version of health care. we had 53 democrats support the pro-life provisions and it was passed by the house. >> congressman pitts, i
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appreciate it. i want to talk to the lawyer or senior legal analyst, jeff toobin. jeff, i want to begin with the charge that we just heard from congresswoman speier that is an anti abortion bill. is that the correct reading and is it legal? >> the issue from is it legal is separate from s. it a good idea? the courts have up held many restrictions on abortion other than outlawing it all together. we have seen in many recent years attempts to make abortions more difficult to obtain, more expensive. this bill tries to get insurance programs, not to cover abortion. the supreme court, it seems, and you have to do some prognostication, basically appears to be upholding any restriction on abortion, except
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outlawing it all together. and in that vain i think they would allow this restriction. >> okay. jeff toobin and, again, congressman pitts, thank you both for coming on. still ahead, here's a change of pace here. a couple has sex while skydiving and their stunt is not only on video but lands them in big trouble. is race playing a role here with herman cain. we have a look at that. but, first -- we'll be right back. thank you so much, i appreciate it, i'll be right back. they didn't take a dime. how much in fees does your bank take to watch your money ? if your bank takes more money than a stranger, you need an ally. ally bank. no nonsense. just people sense.
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and now we look at herman cain's race to the white house and whether skin color has anything to do it. >> reporter: one african-american kept his eye on the prize and won it. >> it's been a long time coming but, tonight, because of what we did on this day in this
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election, at this, the fighting moment, change has come to america. >> reporter: fast forward three years, and another black man also eyeing the prize and generating the buzz but has not mentioned the story of his journey. herman cain believes that the notion of racism is overblown. >> people sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve. >> reporter: many of herman cain's supporters believe that race should not be an issue. why are they reluctant to mention cain being a black man? the candidate hem self says this. >> why is the republican party basically poison for so many african-americans? >> because many
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african-americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. >> reporter: critics have harbored and cain's popularity is rising in recent polls, the former radio talk show host has long been a and it party favorite. he's been a south after speaker at tea party rallies. he's won presidential straw polls with strong tea party support and many act visits say that they want him on a presidential ticket, either at the top or as vp. organizers site those facts against claims of tea party bigotry. jenny martin is co-founder of the largest tea party and saying that well so much tea party support is another example that the tea party movement is not racist. it shows that we're looking at
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the issues and we're not looking at skin color. yet questions regarding cain's skin collar will likely continue. as many people celebrate martin luther king jr. a this weekend's dedication of his washington memorial, herman cain has his own take on the dream. >> i have achieved all of my american dreams and then some because of the great nation of the united states of america. what's there to be angry about? >> and, brooke, take note of those words. what's their to be angry about? herman cain says he's achieved all of his goals and that it's become of success, not because of government handouts. he's a classic pull yourself up by your own bootstraps conservative and that's part of why he's resonated within certain republican circles.
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he's been popular among tea party activists and that's the kind of message that they like. stick to the economy, taxes, constitutional adherence and don't focus on what you have gotten or what you haven't gotten because you're black. >> shannon travis, thank you so much. and, all right, finally the story has a lot of people talking. a couple has sex while sky diving and the man involved has just responded to us. we'll be right back with that. [ male announcer ] have you heard? it's bring your happiness to work day. campbell's microwavable soups. in three minutes -- the deliciousness that brings a smile to any monday. campbell's -- it's amazing what soup can do.
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okay. this is al friday kind of story. and i have to warn you, even
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blurred, the pictures are racey, so i'm going to pause for a beat. if you have young kids watching, you may want to send them out of the room right now. this next report is about a sky diving sex stunt raising all kinds of eyebrows in southern california and the faa is questioning whether a couple violated any laws by doing the deed on a plane and during the sky dive. here is our affiliate with the story. >> reporter: the viral video is so explicit, we're only going to show you blurred still images with a katy perry pop song blaring in the background, a pornstar also moonlighted on the weekends as a sky dive instructor. he abruptly removed the video as a taft investigation unfolded. >> i didn't know it until yesterday until an officer informed me of this going around the kids in school and stuff.
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>> reporter: the video shows torres and hope howl, a receptionist at the sky dive school, having sex in a plan before jumping out in tandem and continuing the act midair. >> yeah, i was really surprised. >> reporter: the video was a stunt torres put together to get the attention of howard stern. >> apparently they told my >> apparently, they told my pilot it was okay to do this and showed up in the morning before anybody got here and shot this thing. >> lieutenant was at the school yesterday and says there are no criminal charges pending. he says everyone who appeared in the video was of age and since no one complained about witnessing the dive, there are no public nudity charges either. >> one teenage boy saw it, from my understanding was upset at the girl in the video that was in the video and took it and posted it to all of his friends. >> a spokesmen with the faa says there is no -- but he says any
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activity that could affect the pilot's ability to concentrate on flying or cause the pilot to be cost led, could cause a violation. at one point, the couple shown seated in a jump seat. >> by the way, we did reach out to torii and gave the following statement -- larry king sits down with one of the more elusive actors in the world. >> i still feel like in terms of character, captain jack is one
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i'd like to explore. >> he's still evolving? >> yeah. because he's -- because he's fun, you know. it's a license to be totally and utterly irreverent and get away with it. >> he's going to age then. >> well, i suppose he'll have to. >> so, guess who's joining me next? larry king himself to talk more about this conversation with johnny depp at his private moment office. [ male announcer ] attention medicare beneficiaries. the annual enrollment period to switch your current medicare coverage
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larry king, this sunday sits down with hollywood legend, johnny depp. depp doesn't do many interviews and getting depp to sit down, not only for an interview, we're talking an extended, in depth chat. it's larry king calling. so, i wanted to get a preview, so i got larry on the phone and larry king, since we don't get to see you, i thought -- hey, larry king. i'm putting on my suspenders right now. >> i am. >> my homage to you. you are? >> i am. a little tired. i just got back from skydiving. >> larry, larry, larry. let's not even go there. >> you went there. >> i know, i did. how are you doing? >> doing fine. everything's good and i, i'm out doing speeches. just got back from moscow.
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i was in slovakia. i was in kazakhstan. we're big in kazakhstan. then this giant thing about worked very r hard on, the staff and wendy walker, our executive producer. worked on it i think for months. >> really, to try to get him? >> we do four specials a year. this is our third one. he adpreeed and he was fantastic. we did it at his office where he's never been filmed. >> it looks like a roulette table as the coffee table, art. >> everything, it's got his throne from one of his -- willy wonka, a beautiful painting of brando, who had a great effect on his life. he was very responsive. didn't duck anything. went everywhere we wanted to go. he was terrific. i asked why he doesn't do interviews. he doesn't enjoy being famous.
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>> you asked him precisely about that. here's his answer. >> how did you react to getting famous? >> i'm still reacting, you know? i'm still sort of dealing with it. i don't think it's anything you ever get used to, i know. i could never, for many years, sort of put my name in the same sort of category as the word famous or anything like that. i just found it very uncomfortab uncomfortable. it's weird. something like if you get used to it, then something must be wrong. if you get used to that constant kind of thing, something's got to be wrong. it's got to be so a part of you, somewhere that pines for an nemty. >> i like how he said that. what did you make of that? why is that?
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he's been famous for a long time. >> i think it's just pure honesty. things we forget, he hadn't had a successful film until pirates. he had been in a lot of moderately successful films. the film that affected him the most was "edward sissorhands." we've seen, we think we've known the name for ever, we really haven't. he's basically a guitar player from kentucky. lived in florida, out here. nichololas cage asked him to taa screen test. he got a part in "nightmare on elm street." fame is relatively new to him. you don't see him a lot around in l.a. he's very private. devoted to his wife and children like when we finished the interview, i left to go pick up my kids. he went to go pick up his kids. >> a dad and an actor, devoted
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dad. dad comes first. >> you mentioned marlon brand doe, of course, we know about your famous kiss, right, in your interview, but as you mentioned, he had, has quite an affection for marlon brando. they're friends and you asked him about that. let's listen to that. >> marlon had the best definition of acting that exists, you know. it's a strange job for a grown man. >> that's it. >> it's a strange job for a grown man. >> pretty good impression. pretty good. >> yeah. brando once told mike meadowvoy his description was lying for a living. >> we will see more captain jack? >> yes, going to do another one, officially announced today by

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